The Cinema Eye Honors, which each year recognize documentary filmmaking, announced the nominees for its 14th Annual Awards Ceremony, which will be held virtually this year, on Tuesday, March 9, 2021.
Time, Garrett Bradley’s intimate portrait of a family’s struggle over years of incarceration, was nominated for six Cinema Eye Honors, including Outstanding Feature, Direction, Editing, Score and Debut. Alexander Nanau’s Collective and Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda had four nominations and joined Time in being nominated for Feature, Direction and Editing.
Those three films were joined in the Outstanding Feature category by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ Boys State and Kirsten Johnson’s Dick Johnson is Dead.
David France’s Welcome to Chechnya also received four nominations, including three in the Broadcast categories for Outstanding Film, Editing and Cinematography.
Boys State, Dick Johnson is Dead, Liz Garbus’ HBO series I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Gianfranco Rosi’s Notturno and Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s The Truffle Hunters were each nominated for three awards.
While many returning veterans appeared amongst this year’s nominees, more than 65% of the nominations went to first-timers. Women filmmakers and craftspersons made up 44% of the announcements, a record for Cinema Eye, and female directors scored more nominations overall than their male counterparts across all categories for the first time.
14th Annual Cinema Eye Honors Nominees
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION FEATURE FILMMAKING
Boys State Directed and produced by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss
Collective Directed and produced by Alexander Nanau Produced by Blanca Oana, Bernard Michaud and Hanna Kastelicová
Dick Johnson is Dead Directed by Kirsten Johnson Produced by Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness
Gunda Directed by Victor Kossakovsky Produced by Anita Rehoff Larsen
Time Directed and Produced by Garrett Bradley Produced by Lauren Domino and Kellen Quinn
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTION
Alexander Nanau For Collective
Kirsten Johnson For Dick Johnson is Dead
Victor Kossakovsky For Gunda
Gianfranco Rosi For Notturno
Garrett Bradley For Time
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING
Jeff Gilbert For Boys State
Frederick Wiseman For City Hall
Dana Bunescu, George Cragg and Alexander Nanau For Collective
Victor Kossakovsky For Gunda
Todd Douglas Miller For MLK/FBI
Gabriel Rhodes For Time
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN PRODUCTION
Hao Wu and Jean Tsien For 76 Days
Alexander Nanau, Bianca Oana, Bernard Michaud and Hanna Lastelicová For Collective
Bryan Fogel, Thor Halvorssen, Mark Monroe and Jake Swantko For The Dissident
Donatella Palermo, Camille Laemmle, Serge Lalou, Orwa Nyrabia and Eva-Maria Weerts For Notturno
Ramona S. Diaz, Leah Marino, Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements and Carolyn Hepburm For A Thousand Cuts
Alice Henty, Askold Kurov and Joy Tomchin For Welcome to Chechnya
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Erik Haskjold Lersen and Victor Kossokovsky For Gunda
Roger Horrocks For My Octopus Teacher
Gianfranco Rosi For Notturno
Elizabeth Lo For Stray
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw For The Truffle Hunters
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE
Casey Wayne McAllister For Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
Troy Herion For Bulletproof
Vincent Van Warmerdam For The Mole Agent
Nainita Desai For The Reason I Jump
Jamieson Shaw and Edwin Montgomery For Time
Ed CôrtezFor The Truffle Hunters
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN GRAPHIC DESIGN OR ANIMATION
Zachary Ludescher For Coded Bias
Jenna Caravello and Arthur Jones For Feels Good Man
Jeremy Landman For My Psychedelic Love Story
Andy Cahill For Slay the Dragon
Simon Barker, Matthew Poliquin, Matt Schultz and Shawna Schultz For The Social Dilemma
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN A DEBUT FEATURE FILM
Feels Good Man Directed by Arthur Jones
Mr Soul! Directed by Melissa Haizlip
Softie Directed by Sam Soko
Some Kind of Heaven Directed by Lance Oppenheim
Stray Directed by Elizabeth Lo
Time Directed by Garrett Bradley
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION SHORT FILMMAKING
Huntsville Station Directed by Chris Filippone and Jamie Meltzer
John Was Trying to Contact Aliens Directed by Matthew Killip
A Love Song for Latasha Directed by Nahli Allison
See You Next Time Directed by Crystal Kayiza
Then Comes the Evening Directed by Maja Novakovic
AUDIENCE CHOICE
Boys State Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss
Crip Camp Directed by James Lebrecht and Nicole Newnham
Dick Johnson is Dead Directed by Kirsten Johnson
I Am Greta Directed by Nathan Grossman
John Lewis: Good Trouble Directed by Dawn Porter
The Mole Agent Directed by Maite Alberdi
My Octopus Teacher Directed by James Reed and Pippa Ehrlich
The Social Dilemma Directed by Jeff Orlowski
Time Directed by Garrett Bradley
The Truffle Hunters Directed by Michael Dweck and Greogry Kershaw
SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Acasa, My Home Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc
The Earth is Blue as an Orange Directed by Iryna Tsilyk
Jacinta Directed by Jessica Earnshaw
Landfall Directed byor Cecilia Aldarondo
Mayor Directed by David Osit
Through the Night Directed by Loira Limbal
HETERODOX AWARD
Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets Directed by Bill Ross and Turner Ross
I Carry You With Me Directed by Heidi Ewing
Never Rarely Sometimes Always Directed by Eliza Hittman
Nomadland Directed by Chloe Zhao
Ridge (Säsong) Directed by John Skoog
THE UNFOGETTABLES (NON-COMPETITIVE HONOR)
Stephen Garza and Rene Otero For Boys State
Cătălin Tolontan For Collective
Judith Heymann For Crip Camp
Dick Johnson For Dick Johnson is Dead
Gunda For Gunda
Greta Thunberg For I Am Greta
John Lewis For John Lewis: Good Trouble
Musa Hadid For Mayor
Sergio Chamy For The Mole Agent
Walter Mercado For Mucho Mucho Amor
Boniface Mwangi For Softie
Maria Ressa For A Thousand Cuts
Delores “Nunu” Hogan For Through the Night
Fox Richardson For Time
Olga Baranova and David Isteev For Welcome to Chechnya
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN A NONFICTION FILM FOR BROADCAST
Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn Directed by Ivy Meeropol For HBO
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) Directed by Carol Dysinger For A&E
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Directed by Martin Scorsese For Netflix
Sea of Shadows Directed by Richard Ladkani For National Geographic
Welcome to Chechnya Directed David France For HBO
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN A NONFICTION SERIES FOR BROADCAST
Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children Directed by Joshua Bennett, Maro Chermayoff, Jeff Dupre and Sam Pollard For HBO
Hillary Directed by Nanette Burstein For Hulu
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Directed by Liz Garbus For HBO
The Last Dance Directed by Jason Hehir For ESPN/Netflix
Love Fraud Directed Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady For Showtime
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN EDITING IN A NONFICTION FILM OR SERIES FOR BROADCAST
Bully. Coward. Victim.: The Story of Roy Cohn Editing by Anne Alvergue and Adam Kurnitz For HBO
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Editing by Erin Barnett, Jawad Metni and Alyse Ardell Spiegel For HBO
The Last Dance Editing Chad Beck, Devin Concannon, Abhay Sofsky and Ben Sozanski For ESPN/Netflix
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Editing by Damian Rodriguez and David Tedeschi For Netflix
Welcome to Chechnya Editing by Tyler H. Walk For HBO
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY IN A NONFICTION FILM OR SERIES FOR BROADCAST
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Cinematography by Thorsten Thielow For HBO
Night on Earth – Episode: Moonlit Plains Cinematography by Luke Barnett, Robin Cox, Kevin Flay and Jamie McPherson For Netflix
Sea of Shadows Cinematography Richard Ladkani For National Geographic
The Nightcrawlers Cinematography by Alexander A. Mora For National Geographic
The Vow Cinematography by Ian Moubayed and Sam Price-Waldman For HBO
Welcome to Chechnya Cinematography by Askold Kurov For HBO